personal geographies opens july 6

Omahans across the city will be exposed to printmaking in all its forms this July in conjunction with the 2018 edition of Frogman’s Print Workshops at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

At the little gallery, Personal Geographies featuring works by Diana Behl, Tiberiu Chelcea, Sage Dawson and Mary Jones opens Friday, July 6, with a reception from 6:00 to 9:00pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Behl, Chelcea, Dawson and Jones use mapping conventions to talk about the passage of time and examine the essence of places seen, overlooked or imagined.

Drawing, screenprinting, collagraph, intaglio, photopolymer intaglio, relief and digital printmaking have been used in combination with other methods to distill data into patterns and textures. These symbolically and visually rich works present themselves as puzzles to solve and provide a means of finding one’s way through complex information.

Personal Geographies runs through July 29 at the little gallery, 5901 Maple Street. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Friday from 3:00 to 6:00pm, Saturday from 10:00am to 1:00pm and by appointment. The little gallery is powered by Polecat Communications. For more information, call 402.681.1901 or email info@polecatcommunications.com.

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Frogman’s began humbly in 1979 when Professor Lloyd Menard led five school teachers from Sioux City, Iowa, to the Black Hills of South Dakota for a drawing class. Prints were first introduced in 1981, and the workshops evolved into the Black Hills Print Symposium, which took place at various sites in western South Dakota. By 1996, the workshops had outgrown the confines of the Black Hills and were moved to Beresford, South Dakota, home of Frogman’s Press & Gallery. The workshops would only spend two years based out of Beresford before moving to nearby Vermillion and the University of South Dakota. In 2016, Frogman’s made the big leap to the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where the Frogman took his first ever print class more than 50 years ago.